Fighters of Derry: Their Deeds and Descendants, Being a Chronicle of Events in Ireland During the Revolutionary Period, 1688-91
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William R. Young's Fighters of Derry has for decades been one of
the most overlooked works on the Siege of Derry and as a local
genealogical resource. First published in 1932, the book was the
product of ten years' research which the author undertook when
suffering from ill-health in the latter part of his life. He died
in the following year. His reason for writing it is given in the
Preface: The history of the great Defence of Derry] and the honour
of the Defenders are safe in such hands Lord Macaulay and Dr.
Witherow]: but it has occurred to me that the present-day
generation of Ulstermen, of all political creeds, whether
Protestant or Roman Catholic, would be interested in a work giving
short sketches of the men who played prominent parts in this great
epic and subsequent campaign down to the fall of Limerick, with
particulars of their family, antecedents, and present
representative. There is scarcely an Ulsterman whose ancestry,
direct or through a female line, has not some hereditary touch with
participants in those memorable events. The book is essentially
divided into two parts: the first contains 1660 biographical
entries relating to the defenders of Derry and the second has 352
on the Jacobite side, although some merely record the name and
regiment or the name alone. Young was a proud Ulsterman and
Unionist, but was nevertheless quick to acknowledgement the
gallantry of the Irish who fought on the side of King James: Though
foiled at Derry and beaten at the Boyne (where a gallant Irishman
is said to have exclaimed Change Kings and we'll fight you again ),
they fought desperately on at Athlone and Aughrim to the walls of
Limerick, where they again and again proved the worth of an Irish
soldier. There can to-day be nothing but sympathy and admiration
for the thousands of Irishmen who, after Limerick, rather than
accept extinction in their own land, elected to become exiles and
serve in the armies of Spain and France, where the Irish Brigades
in many a hard-fought battle proved themselves second to none,
while their officers, in many cases, served with such distinction
as to found families once ranking among the grandees of Spain, or
high in the nobility of other continental countries. Apart from
individual accounts of eminent protagonists in the siege, such as
David Cairnes, Rev. George Walker, the Duke of Schomberg, Patrick
Sarsfield, etc., and the not so eminent too, there is also
background given to many of the most influential families involved
in the conflict. This new edition provides a short biographical
sketch of the author and has been enhanced with illustrations. The
index has also been revised and substantially extended. See also
The Actions of the Enniskillen-men (ISBN: 978-1910375068) by Andrew
Hamilton which gives an account of the attempted relief of Derry in
1689.
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